I’m pleased to announce that for the first time, HSQBRank will be naming All-World Teams. These teams will recognize the best individual players in high school quiz bowl for the 2014-2015.

Ten people will be announced to the All-World First Team. Ten more will be named to the All-World Second Team. The existence of Honorable Mentions has not been determined at this time. The teams will be announced in May.

I will be naming the teams myself, though this is not so much solely derived from statistics like the rankings would be.

After recalculating all of the stat adjustments, adding a month’s worth of tournaments and and everything else, we have a brand new set of rankings.

Due to my schedule, it looks like the next set of rankings won’t be until the pre-nationals set.

Edit one: added a performance from Dougherty Valley, corrected a minor typo for Harmony’s ranking

Edit two: corrected data errors, included a couple of data points that were previously accidentally excluded
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